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Illegal immigrants discovered in Frisco


BY NICOLE FORMOSA
summit daily news
September 13, 2005

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FRISCO - Frisco police officers discovered 10 illegal immigrants cramped inside a pickup truck parked at a local business last Friday, according to a report from the Frisco Police Department.

Officer Troy Mackey, Sgt. Jim Donahue and Detective Julie Polly were called to Meadow Creek Tire on Friday evening on a report of a suspicious vehicle that had been in the parking lot all day.

The vehicle was a Toyota pickup truck with Arizona license plates. Police found four adult men in the front portion of the truck - one in the passenger seat and three in the area behind the two front seats. Four additional adult males and two juvenile males were located in the covered bed of the truck. The men appeared to have been in the truck for some time because there was a one-gallon milk jug nearly filled with urine in the truck, the report said. Three of the men appeared to be ill and were coughing.

The men told police they were from Arizona and were on their way to Denver or Colorado Springs to work construction. They said they had been traveling since the day before and were in the country illegally from Mexico. The group did not know where the driver of the truck went, but believed he went to Denver to get a new vehicle because the truck had broken down.

Police called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), then took the men to a holding area at the Summit County Jail to be picked up by an ICE agent. An agent arrived in Summit County from Denver about 9 p.m. and took custody of the men for charges related to immigrations violations.

Nicole Formosa can be reached at (970) 668-3998 ext.229, or at nformosa@summitdaily.com.